Beaver Prototype: British Columbia and Magnix Magni

beaver prototype: The propeller aircraft, a six-passenger de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver prototype, was powered by a magniX magni500 electric motor and piloted by Harbour Air Chief Executive Officer Greg McDougall. ; The test was far more than the laboratory exercises we've seen in the past, said Robert Mann, the New York-based head of aviation consultancy R.W. Mann & Co, according to The Japan Times. It's a real serious, practical test. The neon-green and indigo-blue seaplane took off from the Fraser River in Richmond, British Columbia, as a small crowd cheered from the dock on Tuesday morning. Harbour plans to spend the next two years getting its new plane approved for commercial flight. There are about 170 programs on electrically propelled aircraft in development worldwide, up 50 percent since April 2018, according to the consulting firm Roland Berger. The carrier, which flies to a dozen destinations on the West Coast, has 53 planes and 450 employees spread between British Columbia and Seattle. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.